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ben hill
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RIP the myth of the "Happy Homemaker" - a fiction created post WWII to get Rosie the Riveter to take off her work gloves and get back in the kitchen.

His confession that he killed his CO could (possibly) be the loose thread. Records would show that Dick Whitman was killed. Don Draper WAS the CO.

Duck is a head hunter and presumably will get a percentage of whatever salary Pete ends up with. He will also have a webbed foot in the door of every corporation with a Learjet flying executive. I'm not even convinced he was drunk, just using it as a cover in that con.

Jesus, was your mom Betty Draper?

The whole fucking thing is a poem. I will miss it too.

I can't wait until Pete has to buy Tammy a unicorn because that's what her real birthday wish was.

And an adorable pie-baking Tammy as your daughter?

I thought they were all dressed too cheerfully for that, but it totally sounds like something Betty would mandate. But would her WASPY upbringing allow a breach of etiquette like throwing your own farewell party?

Not great, Tom.

The Center's plan for Paige should have begun with Philip and Elizabeth teaching her, as a toddler, to keep a secret at all costs. It's a pretty common tactic for anyone with big secrets to inculcate a sense in their children that have a moral duty to lie when asked about their family. Growing up in a conservative

Glen's over-the-shoulder-jacket-hooked-by-one finger-saunter into the Francis kitchen was laughable. It looked exactly like he'd seen it in a Burt Reynolds photo spread and was desperately trying to be seductive.

right, but Oleg could totally spill the beans to Stan in exchange for something or other with Nina.

Right, nobody is supposed to know, but if she made an off-hand comment to some low-level schmuck at the office without even realizing she said it, then…

THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK MADMEN PRODUCERS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THE SERIES FINALE!